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Your most important goal early is getting to 6+ mana as soon as possible

From card draw through cards like Thoughtcast to mana fixing through artifacts like Gruul Signet and the enchantment Weirding Wood, the nuts and bolts common and uncommon cards in this deck are always trying to either help you get artifact tokens onto the battlefield, or rewarding you for having artifacts

Its a Storyborn character, meaning the Beast appears here exactly as he does in the films, and the scene this card captures is one of the most dramatic from one of Disneys most bankable intellectual properties

However, due to the card's consistent performance, slower decks across the meta are also making ample use of Starting Town

Excruciator being a compact way to add another angle of attack fits perfectly into a midrange strategy, which relies on being able to adapt its plans against various opponents, as opposed to a controlling strategy, which is much more concerned with the ability to answer incoming threats than finding win conditions